Squier Fender gets in my family

My nephew had planned this for a while now... Buying a Fender electric guitar with the Squier marque. It's a Squier stratocaster! Different from Telecaster...

Back in the 80's I was dreaming about this guitar and its reversed F logo signature...

I sent a message to Wendy and Lisa

Yes, unfair to leave the old continent out of the loop...
I have always wanted to tell how much I love you since I bought my first "wendy and lisa" copy in summer 87. My parentsleft some money for food while they were on holidays but I spent it in Paris' shop 'Fnac' to buy Prince CDs and your first record. It was worth starving.
And after my 8th copy, I am still listening to it with pleasure and tears sometimes.

I almost travelled to LA when your concert in a jazz club was scheduled couple years ago, some time in January or February...

Please try to setup the next session at a more appropriate time for your european fans and you are also very welcome for a concert. Any chance you would visit or play a couple songs in Paris, send an email and I'll be your guide.

How can I ever thank you for all you brought to my world?

Love you both XXXXX

Philippe

Check http://www.wendyandlisa.com/news/live-here-now to know more

Tank man photo... 20 years ago

I cannot use the picture but you can check it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

That pictured courage: sole human being facing an army

The return of Ferris Bueller

No, don't expect "Ferris Bueller, the revenge" or any sequel. When I flipped channels yesterday before going out with PN & her sister Y, I stopped on the famous scene of Ferris singing in the streets of Chicago, during the parade.

It brought back feelings to me. And even if I still have more than 10 copies of this movie, I was truly ready to watch it again.

This movie should be watched by all students as it is more than ever up to date as this article from Le Monde explains more than 78% of French students do not know what to do with their life. The question of 'guidance on careers' is the key question.

That question, I never solved...

Reborn after 10 years... Le Palace, Paris

I am so fan of Prince. No matter what he did, his best years will always remain the 80's. Whatever he did, can he go beyond Purple Rain and Lovesexy. Try some unreleased tracks and you'll understand why.

Anyway, the only time I got tickets to a Prince related event in Paris was the one time Le Palace got closed. It was closed many times on various grounds.

If you want to visit : 8, rue du Faubourg Montmarte 75009, Paris.

I'll post a picture later

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Palace_(Paris)

Palmer, Robert

Johnny and Mary reminds me 1980 when a friend called Jean Marc R****s offered me his skateboard. We were supposed to travel to south of France where it was said people saw extra terrestrials. I did not know my first time with ET would happen about two years after in the US...

With "addicted to love" (1986, refers to Patrick Nagel's art, very 80's style and to some respect close to Olivia de Bernardinis. Both artists I discovered in Playboy magazine, international edition) I further elaborated my fantasies of ultra feminine ladies (thanks again to Olivia de Bernardinis) and heavy make up on sexy tight dresses and high heels. I'll stop here ;-)

Wikipedia details

Ferris Bueller... a new analysis!

Read this paper and find how Ferris Bueller can become a framework of analysis for the modern technology.

Thanks to Christopher for his discovery! By the way, when was the last time you stopped and looked around?

(Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. )

Wendy and Lisa... Yatta

As you grow older you learn that you wishes will probably never get granted. Yet you leave a little piece of blue sky open to surprises and serendipities.

Here's one : Wendy and Lisa will soon release a new record. Last time I heard that was with their collaboration to "Heroes". I so loved their first album Wendy and Lisa with the magnificient songs that were enlightened wth the color of sadness (1987) ; I remember buying this CD from Fanc Les Halles and listening to it over and over with tears in my eyes. And 11 years after, Girl Bros with some wonderful songs (e.g. Reaching one, I've got a big bowl of cherries, ...).

I found the news from MySpace.

You can download for free and legally one track of their forthcoming album : Balloon.

Look at their website also!

I wish I could have attended their concert early January in 200x? in L.A.

Wendy and Lisa have alwyas been in my life and they will stay forever...

Ferris Bueller by John Hugues

What a foundation movie in the teenage genre!If not one of the best, as it goes deeper than what you see. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (FBDO) all about this rite of passage from teenager to adulthood.

Dodging the authority is like a secret backdoor to escape from your cyclic life (it goes like 'metro, boulot, dodo' in French ; 'Metro, work and sleep'.) and walk away from the standard path of school for a while. The sudden happiness that results from unexpected short time freedom is like a shot of fresh air.

A clever analysis is available from that blog and additional elements are available here.

Check details at IMDB... and wikipedia and that site and some kind of vault here.

Since the first draft (07/11/08@2:43PM) I found Ferris on myspace...

That movie will remain as a contribution and a testimonial of the 80's... Breakfast Club too in a more dramatic approach.

Get pictures from http://images.google.com/images?q=ferris%20bueller and http://www.matthewbroderick.net/gallery/movie/ferris.html

Remember these? :

• The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?"


• Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

No need to further comment the latter...

Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (1986 was... 22 years ago)

Headroom, Max

When the first French Pay TV arrived in France, it was a revolution! in 1984 Canal + came with a new definition of television.

One of their programs came directly from the US and it was, at that time, a state of the art computer generated entertainment show entitled "Max Headroom".

I liked this character and as many other teenagers, dreamed of having Max in my own computer. As an icon from the 80's, Max Headroom had to have a post in this blog.

By the way, the picture comes from a very interisting book with great names : Jean-Francois Bizot (founder of Radio Nova, and Nova magazines among many other things, died in 2007/09/8) and Jean Rouzaud (musicologist with extended knowledge, still on the air on Radio Nova). It is one of the few valuable books about the 80's.